Early and personal life of ab

Bachchan was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, in north central India.[9] His father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, was a Hindi poet, and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a PunjabiSikh from Faisal- abad (now in Pakistan).[10] Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab, inspired from the phrase made famous during the Indian independence struggle, Inquilab Zindabad, which means "long live revolution". However, at the suggestion of fellow poet Sumitranandan Pant, Harivansh Rai changed the name to Amitabh which means, "the light that will never die." Though his surname was Shrivastava, his father had adopted the pen-name Bachchan (meaning "child-like" in colloquial Hindi), under which he published all his works. It is with this last name that Amitabh debuted in films, and, for all public purposes, it has become the surname of all members of his family. Bachchan's father died in 2003 and his mother in 2007.[11]